given the sort of places a kid in the US right now would usually be seeing that style of art - that is, mediocre-to-insulting newspaper comics and cartoons - I think it's sort of reasonable that they would have trouble getting into it. They might never have run into anything good in that particular aesthetic before.
Good point. There are few really good syndicated comic strips around; even fewer that are accessible to new or young audiences--I love Doonesbury, but I certainly didn't love it as a kid, and it's a long-running, old strip best appreciated with a simultaneous knowledge of its own history, modern 20th century history and politics and contemporary politics--and damn few comics that, regardless of their sophistication of writing, have really innovative visuals. For expressive, creative visual techniques, just off the top of my head? Zits. I can't call anything else to mind, although I imagine there's a few.
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Good point. There are few really good syndicated comic strips around; even fewer that are accessible to new or young audiences--I love Doonesbury, but I certainly didn't love it as a kid, and it's a long-running, old strip best appreciated with a simultaneous knowledge of its own history, modern 20th century history and politics and contemporary politics--and damn few comics that, regardless of their sophistication of writing, have really innovative visuals. For expressive, creative visual techniques, just off the top of my head? Zits. I can't call anything else to mind, although I imagine there's a few.